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Sophisticate vs Expert - What's the difference?

sophisticate | expert |

As nouns the difference between sophisticate and expert

is that sophisticate is a worldly-wise person while expert is a person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given subject.

As adjectives the difference between sophisticate and expert

is that sophisticate is adulterated; not pure; not genuine while expert is extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable.

As a verb sophisticate

is to make less natural or innocent.

sophisticate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A worldly-wise person
  • * '' , episode ''Sailor Mouth
  • Patrick: Because classy sophisticates like us should not stain our lips with cursing.
    SpongeBob: Yea verily!

    Verb

    (sophisticat)
  • To make less natural or innocent.
  • * 1956–1960 , (second edition, 1960), chapter ii: “Motives and Motivation”, page 38:
  • Psychologists have developed quasi-causal theories to explain'' the directedness of behaviour, to answer the question ‘Why are certain sorts of reasons operative?’ and these theories may well have insinuated themselves into ordinary language as part of the meaning of “motive”. It might well be, therefore, that people who are slightly sophisticated by psychological theories assume some such necessary connexion [''sc. between giving the motive for an action and making any assertions of a causal kind about a man’s emotional state].
  • To practice sophistry; change the meaning of, or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive.
  • To sophisticate the understanding. — Southey.
    Yet Butler professes to stick to plain facts, not to sophisticate , not to refine. — M. Arnold.
  • To alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive.
  • To sophisticate wine. — Howell.
    They purchase but sophisticated ware. — Dryden.
  • To make more complex or refined.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Adulterated; not pure; not genuine.
  • * Dryden
  • So truth, while only one supplied the state, / Grew scarce and dear, and yet sophisticate .

    expert

    English

    (wikipedia expert)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable.
  • I am expert at making a simple situation complex.
    My cousin is an expert pianist.
  • Characteristic of an expert.
  • This problem requires expert knowledge.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * inexpert * nonexpert

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given subject.
  • * If an expert''' says it can't be done, get another '''expert . -
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
  • (chess) A player ranking just below master.